author
Ellison Harding
1851–1909
A little-known author name attached to an early utopian novel, best known for The Demetrian, later published as The Woman Who Vowed. The book imagines a near-future society and blends speculative fiction with social commentary.
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The Woman Who Vowed (The Demetrian)
by Ellison Harding
About the author
Ellison Harding is the name printed on The Demetrian (1907), a utopian novel that was also published as The Woman Who Vowed in 1908. Modern library and bibliography records consistently connect that work with this author name, but reliable biographical details are scarce.
Some scholarly and catalog sources suggest that Ellison Harding may have been a pseudonym linked to Edmond Kelly, who lived from 1851 to 1909. Because the surviving public record is limited and not entirely straightforward, it is safest to say that the name is chiefly remembered through this single speculative novel.
That novel has continued to attract interest from readers of early science fiction and utopian literature, and it remains available through major public-domain and library collections. Even with so little personal history confirmed, the work itself has kept the name Ellison Harding in circulation.